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OddlyTrue News Stand — August 20
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Weird history on August 20
2007 Oddly trueChina Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
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1707 First everThe first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British and Creek abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida.
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1858 First everCharles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
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Vintage clipping · 1920
Washington standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory), August 20, 1920
Page 6 · mentions "monster" · printed on this very day
“PAGE SIX AMERICAS APPLE CROP IS WORTH 300000000 Every since that balmy and eve ful spring day many thousands of years ago when a fair young maid your very great grandmaand a fine husky young bachelor your very great gran…”
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